Home » Jazz Musicians » Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey

Sign in / sign up and request update access to the Shirley Bassey page.


Tags

217
Album Review

Shirley Bassey: Greatest Hits

Read "Greatest Hits" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Riding the tail end of her Propellerhead-ed revival and the never-ending revival of the Bond films, the sassy Ms. Bassey is back with a retrospective of her decades of well-dictioned themes. Bassey plays her trump cards and also bluffs a few hands on tunes ranging from her unrivaled 007 three-fer of “Diamonds are Forever," “Moonraker" and “Goldfinger," to splashy show tunes like “Big Spender" and attempts at pop coverage--like a note- and gender-bending take on The Beatles’ “Something" and a ...

Read more articles
1

Video / DVD

Shirley Bassey: History Repeating

Shirley Bassey: History Repeating

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

In 1997, the British electronic duo The Propellerheads recorded and performed History Repeating with Shirley Bassey. The single reached #1 hit on the U.K. Indie Chart and #10 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart, Dame Shirley's first top-10 hit on any U.S. chart since 1973's Never Never Never. According to Bassey, Alex Gifford, half the duo, wrote the song especially for her. The video poked loving fun at Brit TV's Jazz 625, and the Propellerhead's album's cover paid homage ...

2

TV / Film

Documentary: Dame Shirley Bassey

Documentary: Dame Shirley Bassey

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Most Americans know Shirley Bassey only from her three brassy James Bond film themes—Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker. In the U.K., Dame Shirley was enormously popular from the late 1950s on. She delivered on stage the way Judy Garland did, belted songs out the way Barbra Streisand did and was as coy and as intriguing as Nancy Wilson. Yet she never crossed over to the U.S. pop market. While she appeared occasionally in Las Vegas and on American TV ...

Music Industry

Shirley Bassey: "Goldfinger"

Shirley Bassey: "Goldfinger"

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Dame Shirley Bassey finally invaded America. At last night's 85th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, the 76-year-old, Welsh-born pop singer brought Hollywood's elite to their feet with a rousing and coy performance of Goldfinger—the James Bond movie theme she first recorded in 1964 and made famous in the years that followed. Though Dame Shirley eventually would record two additional Bond themes—Diamonds are Forever (1971) and Moonraker (1979)—Goldfinger was her only Billboard Hot 100 hit in 1965, with the movie's soundtrack reaching ...

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Best Of

Verve Records
2012

buy

Thoughts Of Love /...

Verve Records
2011

buy

This Is My Life /...

Verve Records
2009

buy

The Performance

Verve Records
2009

buy

Forever

Verve Records
2009

buy

Diamond Diva

Verve Records
2009

buy

Similar

Get more of a good thing!

Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories, our special offers, and upcoming jazz events near you.